‘No alternative’ to second lockdown, PM to tell MPs November 2, 2020 Boris Johnson is expected to tell MPs that there is “no alternative” to a second lockdown later today as he seeks to garner support for new restrictions which are due to come into effect on Thursday. In a statement to Parliament, he will warn that deaths from coronavirus could be twice as high as in [...]
Friends, then rivals: Boris Johnson has the last laugh over Michael Gove June 20, 2019 First they were friends, then they were rivals, and now, Johnson is the victor. The lives of Boris Johnson and Michael Gove ran parallel for many years, before becoming intertwined during the EU referendum and split apart by an act of betrayal in the 2016 leadership contest. Johnson has now got his revenge for Gove [...]
Keir Starmer’s bid for Red Wall voters will leave the young out in the cold October 4, 2021 No one wants to hear a longer speech from Keir Starmer after his first performance in front of live crowds at Labour conference last week. The ninety minute monologue on his vision for the party’s future was, in short, a lot. But even in the midst of winding journeys through his personal history, segues on [...]
Mandatory Covid vaccine passports for night clubs and events scrapped September 12, 2021 Sajid Javid has announced the government will not be moving forward with plans to implement mandatory vaccine passports for night clubs and large-scale events. The measure will be scrapped, after two weeks of assurances from Number 10 and ministers that they would still be brought in at the end of this month. Boris Johnson originally [...]
Boris Johnson backs Australia free trade deal despite farmers’ fears May 19, 2021 Boris Johnson believes Australia should be offered a free trade deal with the UK, despite fears domestic farmers could be hit by price competition from overseas. Johnson will back plans to offer Australian agricultural exporters the same zero-tariff, zero-quota terms as those enjoyed by the European Union. There has been backlash from the UK’s National [...]
UK considers giving millions of vaccines to Ireland March 28, 2021 The UK is reportedly planning on giving millions of Covid-19 vaccines to Ireland in a bid to stave off a third wave in Northern Ireland. The government is reportedly concerned Northern Ireland could see a surge in Covid cases when travel restrictions are lifted as Ireland has only vaccinated around 10 per cent of its [...]
G7: EU leaders to heap pressure on Boris Johnson over Northern Ireland row June 11, 2021 Boris Johnson is set to face pressure from EU leaders in a series of G7 summit meetings tomorrow over how to manage the post-Brexit situation in Northern Ireland. Negotiations about the future of checks on goods going between Northern Ireland and Great Britain are deadlocked, after Johnson refused a Brussels proposal for the UK to [...]
EU to allow UK data flow in boost for business and law enforcement February 15, 2021 Brussels will allow data to continue to flow from the EU to the UK after deciding that Britain had an adequate level of protection for personal information. A draft decision by the European Commission is expected to be approved this week, the Financial Times reported on Monday. The move will help with features of EU-UK [...]
Rishi Sunak: Financial support for self-employed people to increase November 2, 2020 Chancellor Rishi Sunak this morning said that self-employed people would be given extra support due to the onset of a new national lockdown. Speaking to the BBC, he said that the cap on current grant of 40 per cent of trading profits would be increased. The grant is paid out in a single instalment covering [...]
Von der Leyen: ‘Mistakes were made’ ahead of EU/UK vaccine debacle February 10, 2021 European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has admitted “mistakes were made” ahead of the EU’s brief and disastrous decision to block vaccines travelling to the UK. Speaking this morning, Von der Leyen said the EU Commission would do its “utmost to protect the peace in Northern Ireland.” The EU Commission president admitted the bloc [...]